Dictionary Entry
discerning
discerning is a 10-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Discern. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 18 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1present participle
of Discern
- 2adjective
Acute; shrewd; sagacious; sharp-sighted.
- 3adjective
having or revealing keen insight and good judgment
"a discerning critic"
"a discerning reader"
- 4adjective
able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive
"discerning taste"
"a discerning eye for color"
- 5adjective
quick to understand- Nathaniel Hawthorne
"a kind and apprehensive friend"
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- 6adjective
unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic
"a discerning editor"
"a discreet silence"
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